Ornamental piping, method of making and applying, and article of manufacture containing the same



1 1,831,764 LYING, AND AINING THE SAME Filed Feb. 11. 1928 Nov. 10, 1931. EVANS ORNAMENTAL PIPING, METHOD OF MAKING AND APP ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE CONT 2 Sheets-Sheet l Nov. 10, 1931. H. A. EVANS 1,831,764

ORNAMENTAL PIPING, METHOD OF MAKING AND APPLYING, AND I ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE CONTAINING THE SAME Filed Feb. 11, 1928 2 Sheets-Sheen 2 y I v I I "WM/4g 6 wI g fiwm, a\

' Patented Nov. 10, 193i V UNITED STATES- PATENT'OFFICE HAROLD EVANS, 0F LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO PAIR-CO SPEGIALTYCO OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, A. CORPORATION ORNAMENTAL PIPING-, METLHOD OF MASSACHUSETTS or MAKING AND APPLYING, AND ARTICLE or mu:

FACTURE CONTAINING THE SAME Application filedFebruary 11, 1928. SeriaI'No. 253, 00.

This invention relates to strips used for ornamenting articles such :as parts of shoes, other garments, and other sheet articles; and to the articles of manufacture containing such strips in their construction. .It involves and comprises ornamental strips as articles.

of manufacture having new and useful characteristics, a new method of making such strips, a new mode of applying the strips 0 having such characteristics to the seams be- 0 tail the embodiment and set forth-in the a or other tween the parts of the articles to be ornamented thereby, and the new and improved articles of manufacture resulting from the application of the strips in the new manner referred to.

One particularly wide and important field of use of the invention is in the ornamentation of shoe uppers, for which reason I will in the following specification describe in deadapted for that use and its advantages; making it understood, however, that such detailed description is illustrative rather than limiting and that the invention may be applied to' a variet of other analogous uses within the scope o the protection which I claim. One feature of prime importance in the invention is that the piping is adhesive, not only when prepared for use in shoe making, but for other uses as well, from which result economy in its application and greater strength in-the shoe uppers and other leather goods in which the piping is incorporated. as compared with the articles containing piping applied by methods heretofore used, This and other features of utility. and value are explained following specification. In the drawings,

Fig. 1 is a diagram illustratingthe preferred method of making my improved pipvention which I claim;

Figs. 2 to 8 inclusive are fragmentaryperspective views illustrating successive steps in the manufacture of this piping, culminating in the finished article shown in Fig. 8;

Fig. 9 is a fragmentary diagrammatic view illustrating the method of applying my improved piping to a part of a shoe upper article of manufacture;

and

Fig. 10 is fragmentary'plan view of one of the pieces of a" shoe upper with piping adhesively unitedthereto; 1

Fig. 11 is a fragmentary elevation showing part of a shoe upper made of pieces stitched together, with piping at the such pieces and at the top edge Fig. 12 is a sectional view taken on line 12-12 of Fig. 11. Like reference characters ,desi ate the same parts wherever they occur in all the figures. I Describing first the form of piping em invention which at present I prefer to others, and the preferred method of making it, first take a strip of the material commonly used for piping. That used in connection with leather goods is made ofa thin skiving from the grain side of leather, The skivings of the upper; of. the seam as sheepskin, 'kid, calf, etc. from skins or pieces of skins are scarfed matched together at their edges to make a sheet of substantial area, from which strips of the prescribed width are cut. These strips in turn are scarfed at their ends and. glued together into a continuous ribbon' of any length desired. Fig. 2 shows a fragment of such a ribbon designated a. This ribbon is coated on the flesh side with cement in two zones 6 and 0 along and adjacent to the o posite edges. Such zones are indicated m Fig. 3 with exaggerated thickness by shaded areas. While the cement thus applied may extend over the whole surface. of the ribbon on the flesh side, I prefer to limit it to distinct zones each of awidth equal to the flap at each edge of the ribbon which is afterwards folded over plus the area of-the strip overlaid seam between the parts of cement may be' the adhesive a. tank maybe used, such, for instance, as rolls in of cement partly submerged and partly projecting above the cement in the tank and having suitable width and being suitably placed to apply the cement in the desired locations as the strip is drawn over them. I have, however, shown in Fig. 1, as a part of the diagram illustrating the further steps of converting the ribbon thus cement coated into the finished piping, a cement' applying device of the type above described, which may be taken as an illustration of suitable means for cement coating the ribbon on the zones 1) and 0. Other specific means may equally well be used.

After being coated as thus described, the ribbon passes through a series of operations substantially as shown diagrammatically in Fig. 1 with the results illustrated in Figs. 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. First it passes through a folder 1 of a well known character, which bends up, doubles over and presses down the edges of the ribbon, such edges then forming the flaps d and 6 shown in Fig. 4, which cover the cemented zones 1) and 0 and are held by the cement in close union with middle part of the ribbon. The ribbon then has the smooth finished characteristics of the grain side of the leather at both edges and as far inward on the back side of the ribbon as the flaps extend. Folders suitable for this operatlon to a buffer consisting of an tion, similar to are well known and obtainable in the mar ket, wherefore description in further detail of such a folder is unnecessary for the information of those skilled in the art to which this invention appertains.

Upon leaving the folder, the ribbon passes abrasive wheel or roll 2, against the circumference of which the ribbon is held by a presser roll 3. The bufiing roll may be made of a core with a covering of sand paper or the like, or it may be made of abrasive material as a grinding wheel. It is made of less width on the face than the folded ribbon, and the latter is so gilnitsied that the buffing wheel removes the h from the inner parts of the foldedover flaps, from the inner edges thereof to lines at a prescribed distance from the folded edges of the strip, at the same time beveling the flaps to thin edges adjacent to the uncovere central zone of the ribbon. Thesurfaces thus bufied and beveled are indicated at f and g in Fig. 5. In order that the may thus bevel the flaps and not leave a sharp ledge or shoulder at the outer limit of the bufied zone, either the .bufling wheel or the presser roll may be convex in the axial directhe longitudinal convexity of a barrel.

The bufling action it removes the grain or of the flaps, making finish, that is, opening the pores and exposing the fibers of the leather beneath the grain glaze on the surface .be noted that all the thereof,

1 the roll on the strip.

has two effects. First what is called a mat and the intermediate body of the ribbon capable of receiving a film of adhesive of nearly uniform thickness .over the entire area on which the adhesive is then applied. It may figures of the drawings in which the piping is shown in detail exaggerate the thickness of the ribbon and the parts thereof for clearness of illustration; inasmuch as the actual ribbon illustrated here is generally less than twenty thousandths of an inch in thickness and therefore too thin to be shown accurately to scale as to all dimensions. 1 may say further that in this same illustration the ribbon before folding is about eleven sixteenths of an inch in width and the folded flaps are about one eighth of an inch wide each, making the ribbon after folding about seven sixteenths of an inch wide p and that the bufied surfaces terminate about one sixteenth of an inch from each folded edge, leaving the finish unmarred by bufiing as far inward from posed to view when the piping has been applied to a shoe orother article of manufacture, but providing a wide enough surface for reception of adhesive to afford a firm union between the piping and the part to which it is applied. However, the figures above given are illustrative merely and may be varied without departing from the invention herein claimed.

A film or layer of adhesive, indicated in Fig. 6 by the shaded area h is over the bufied zones and intermediate area of the strip. This may be done by such an apparatus as shown in Fig. 1 consisting of a tank 4 containing a quantityof adhesive 5 and provided with a roll 6 which dips into the adhesive while protruding above the surface Being held in contact with the cement applying roll 6 by a presser roll 7, the friction of the strip rotates the roll, whereby the adhesive is constantly picked up and-deposited by This cement applying means is also merely illustrative, and I may employ other means for accomplishing the same end.

As previously folded over flaps, ation, provides a stated, the beveling of the caused by the bufling opersufiiciently'even surface to then applied the edge as will be ex- 7 and over which the strip is drawn.

take a film of adhesive of substantially uniform thickness throughout its width. .This

is very important/for the uniform thickness of the adhesive gives uniform strength of adhesion throughout all parts of the coated area. I preferably use for the purpose of this adhesive coating a cement of thick consisten'cy having a high degree of tack'iness and of a quality such that it will remain sticky plying a protective covering is required. So and flexible for long periods of time after the two strips of piping into which the ribbon evaporation of the excess solvent included hasbeen divided are led in separate paths unwith it to makeit sufliciently fluid for applider rolls 13 and 14, by which strips m and n,

' cation in the manner described; and having brought from reels 15 and 16, respectively, are also the quality of being instantly adherent to applied to the coated side of the piping.

' the untreated surface of the leather or other Thence the pieces of piping are led over pieces to which the piping is to be applied, guides 17 and 18 into boxes or baskets in and preferably without preliminary treatment by 20, where they are allowed to remain or a 19 heat or moisture. Such cements, some of short period of time to effect further temperthem containing rubber in their composition, ing of the adhesive. Finally the piping is are now known and available on the market removed from the baskets and wound up on and are used-for coating or impregnating adspools or cards in condition for delivery to hesive tapes of various kinds. I may use any the trade. v

r of these known cements, or any other c0m- The strips m and 11., one of which is shown positions having the suitable qualities above In Fig. 8, are strips of thin textile fabric of indicated which may be known at the present an inexpensive quality, cut on the bias in a time or may be developed in future. Iprefer width suflicient to cover substantially the to apply it in such thickness or consistency whole area of the adhesive film on the piping.

that the tape will receive from the applying Several advantages result from using bias roll and retain, after drying to the extent cut covering strips, one of which is that when later indicated, a film of six thousandths of the strip is pulled away from the piping an inch or th reabout in d th. preparatory to applying the latter, none of The cementedstrip is then dried to the exthe threads of the strip will part from the tent that the volatile solvents in its composiip and m i edh ni g t0 the piping, tion will pass off by evaporation into warm because all of the threads run diagonally and dry air, but .not to the extent of losing its' t ere are no longitudinal threads capable of tacky quality. It may be dried by passing leaving the interwoven cross threads at the it around a pair of drums or rolls 8 and 9 edges of he strip. Another is that the diin exposure to a blast or current of air, and in g na-l arrangement of the threads allows a suflicient number of parallel wraps or turns, the cover strip to stretch when pulled upon,

spaced apart longitudinally of the drums, to which facilitates its release from the adhe be exposed a long enough time to the air curlVe coating of'the piping at the time of use.

rent to b ufli i tly dri d b for a ing to Preferably the cover strip is stiffened with strip-first passes around the drum 8, then together the interwoven threads of which it back and around the drum 9, then on again to Is made, giving it strength to withstand the I the drum8 in a path parallel to the path of its P1111 pp ied in I'em0Ving it from the piping first passage, then back to the drum again, and enabling it to stretch as described with- 4f d so on; each pass or stretch of the tape be Ollt pul ing apart. tween the drums being parallel to and sepa- The COVEr strip prevents overlapping turns rated from the other stretches thereof. f h rolled up piping strip from adhering Leaving th d yin apparatus, th t i to each other and prevents the sticky side of conducted under a guideroll 10 to a pinking 0116 n I n ing I aring Ofi the 4s matchme i ti f a b d 11 11 or i finished surface of the turn over which it lies.

. alent bed, and a cutting roll 12 equipped with is p l y important With p p ng knives in a zigzag arrangement which make hhvlhg a metalhc finish in Which the is zigzag connecting'cuts through the cement g n y metal P which i Some-cases coated zone of the strip anddivide it into two 18 5 lhhhed 5c i j t i 7 d Z as h w i Fi 7, h The method of manufacture hereinbefore having deep tapering notches between corre fiescl'ihed results in a Superior tide of P p spondingly tapering tongues. The not h mg, for the product is highly flexible, is adhei fl ibilit t th i i itti it t slve on one side so that it can be united Withbe scharply bent to conform with r r or out stitching to the piece designed to receive angles of the pieces to which it i to b a it, and the adhesiveness extends far enough plied, while the tongues provide adhesive surtoward h finish d (f l dge-t0 give a face of sufficient area and proper location to firm bond. It is also a highly economical unite the piping firmly at all points to such method, for it is carried on continuously, the

pieces. material passing from one operation to the The piping is now complete so far as connext without pause or interruption, and the V cerns its capacity for attachment; but in operation results in two finished articles. It order to put it in marketable condition,-that is economical in material also, for the ribbon 1s, to protect the coated side so that it may be Wide enough to make two piping strips need wound on spools or cards or in rolls for debe only slightly wider than that required for 5 livery to the trade, the further step of apone piping, and much less than the combined the next operation. That is, the ribbon or starch or other size which somewhat binds .100.

width of two. The pinking operation by being firm enough to prevent creeping of'the which the strip is severed causes the material piping on'the piece during subsequent hancut from the notches of one piping to form dling and particularly when the pieceis afterpart of the substance of the other, instead wards stitched to another piece of the manu- 5 of being wasted, as when separately made factured article and is turned back and forth 70 single piping is pinked. And the pinking is in being passed through the sewing machine an advantage on account of the flexibility by which the seam uniting the pieces is sewed. which it gives to the piping. While other means than that above de- The piping may be enameled, dyed, lacscribed may be used for feeding and uniting quered or otherwise finished in any desired the piece and the piping may be used, as, 75 color at a suitable stage in its manufacture, for instance, a pair of continuously rotating either in the ribbon form or in the sheet before rolls, I prefer such means as here described it is cut into ribbons, preferably the latter. because the impact of the reciprocating In applying the piping, it is united by its presser tends to make a closer union between adhesive coating to one of the pieces which the piece and the piping, and the flatness of so go into the finished article. It being so ap" the presser and supporting table makes the plied, the piping is laid against one of the united pieces smooth and fiat and facilitates surfaces of the piece with its finished edge the guiding of the parts. projecting from the edge of the piece and its A fragment of the parts united by the pro- .1. coated side against the adjacent surface of cedure just described is shown in'Fig. 10,this

the piece. It may be so applied by hand or figure illustrating the manner in which the with the aid of a machine; and for rapid compinked piping is able to bend and conform mercial production the use of a machine is ith th b d or angle in the piece to preferable. This step is illustrated diagramwhich it is applied.

matically in Fig. 9. A suitable machine is an The piping may be thus applied to the edge 90 ordinary sewing machine having the usu of any of the pieces which go to the making table 01' bed,rec1pro at1ng PIGSS I f of a shoe or other article of manufacture. mltteht feeder and g g and f Whlch Fig. 11 shows a part of a shoe upper in which the needle n thread v been removedthe piece 0 with its adherent piping is stitched J 0 Or a special machine having the parts above to another piece p by a single seam q. The 5 e i equivalent elements, maybe P relation of these parts and the seam is fur-v vlded r d vlsed for the purpose. ther shown in the sectional view Fig. -12, In F1g-9 the table f is shewn at 21 and where the seam is indicated by the transverse the Presser at The mtelmltteht feeder, broken line. Fig 11 further shows a piping h g g and the meehemsms Operating applied to the edge of the piece p which forms m v ble pa ts are not Shown, h em y be the edge ofthe upper, illustrating the fact of the character l known 111 sewmg that piping may be used to finish and ornachines, and the mach ne forms no part of the t any f th d es of any of the pieces ihvehtlenlhucelrymg out the epeletleh h which go into the nished article, whether 40 P p g: designated ihFig- 9 as the P p 13 such edge is a free edge or the overlap of a laid on the table 21 with the cemented side I I ppe e the Piece 0 to which it is That phase of the invention which con- PP is h On top of it under the Presser sists in adhesively uniting the piping to the and over the feed member, after a suflicient d f piece hi h i afterwards to be length of the cover strip 1 has been pulled sewed t th piece h d an 011 The operator, having started the maportant advance in. the art of shoe making chine, guides the piping Stflp andth ple and analogous manufactures, which may be 0 hhder the e z tm'mng the Pleee as best explained by comparison with the pracquired to lay the piping along its rv tices heretofore employed universally, 'or

regular edges and around the corners and b t ti ll ,i thi re angles thereof, hg the P p always to The use of piping in shoe uppers has long pro ect a un form given distance fr m the been known and valued as a very efiective I edge of the p ece, and pulling off a leng h f, means of ornamentation, particularly of the cover strip from time to time. In thus Shoes f womens wear, Since th i i bpulling off the strip the operator grasps it and genres the raw edge of the overlapping piece I2" remov on d lfl gt y a Single of the upper leather at the seam, and also sweep of the artn The strip comes away ives striking and beautiful ornamental efcleanly from the piping, without leavlng any fects. Hitherto it has been necessary in comthreads adherlng t0 the men 1 11 r mercial manufacture to stitch the piping first of, due to the diagonal arrangement of the to one of the pieces in order to secure the de- '2:

threads composing the strip, and the stretchsired uniformity in the visible width of the ing which is made possible by its biased form piping, before sewing the ornamented piece assists in detaching it from the adhesive. A .to another piece. It 1s essential for neatness firm contact is produced between the piece and attractiveness of finish that both seams,

'65 and the piping by the presser 22, such union that for attaching the piping to the first 1a.:

piece and that for securing the pieces together, be stitched with a fine thread in short stitches, and that both seams be sewed in the same line in order to get the ornamental effect desired. Ordinarily the length of the stitches is in the neighborhood of'one thirtieth of an inch and is hardly ever, longer than one twentieth of an inch. In sewing the second seam, it is needle through the holes'made in stitching the first seam owing to the speed at'fwhich sewing machines in this class of work are run and the necessity of rapid production. Hence in most cases the piping was first attached becomes pierced with two sets of needle holes in which the distance between adjacent holes is in some cases so slight that the holes merge into one another, and by which, together with the tightening of the stitches, the leather is greatly weakened. Consequently the leather is liable to tear along the line of the seam in the course of lasting or other subsequent op erations in shoe making, particularly at the seam between the vamp and'quarter when piping is applied there, for an especially heavy strain is then placed on that seam. The spoilage of shoes from this cause in .course of manufacture. and the liability of a seam tearing apart after a short life in use after surviving the shoe making processes, has been so great as to exclude the use of piping from any seam to which a heavy strain is applied either in lasting or in subsequent wear, thus limiting seriously the scope. of ornamentation left to the shoe maker.

In accordance with this invention, I- have eliminated one of these seams and made it possible to apply piping to any seam without weakening the upper any more than is done in the ordinary and necessary operation -of stitching the pieces together, and without incurring danger of spoiling the desired orby failure to keep the exposed width of the piping uniform. Thus I have at one stroke enlarged the field of possible ornamentation by means of piping and removed a serious cause of waste and loss in manufacture by avoiding whatever of the ornamented application of the piping. Piping characteristics described may be used in the manufacture of pocket books and other leather goods, as well as in articles made of other materials than leather. That phase of the invention which consists in providing a piping with an adhesive side or face is not limited in respect to the material of the piping but may be embodied in pip-ings made of other material than leather. While the invention herein claimed has for the purposes of illustration been described or use as piping, it will of course be underpractically impossible to pass the t piece to which the-v ribb stood that it has other uses and that the claims cover the material for any use to which it is applicable;

hat I claim ters. Patent is:

,1. The method of making an ornamental strip which consists in taking a ribbon-like strip of suitable material, applying adhesive and desire to secure by Leted e of the ribbon against the adhesive so applied and on aline so near to said edge that the part so folded over leaves a substantial proportion of the rear surface of the strip exposed, and laying a film of substantially nondrying adhesive on said exposed surface.

2. The method of making an ornamental strip which consists in taking a ribbon-like strip of suitable material, folding over longitudinal flaps from both edges of the stri upon the rear face thereof and uniting such flaps thereto by adhesive, at the same time making the flaps so narrow that asubstantial Width of the rear face of the strip 1s exposed between them, applying a film of substantially non-drying posed rear surface, and dividing tween said flaps'into two strips.

3. The method of making an ornamental strip which consists in taking a ribbon-like material, to one face of the strip adjacent to an edge thereof, turning over the edge ;portion of the on as a flap and uniting it to the body of the ribbon by the adhesive so applied, and laying a film hesive on the same side of the strip and a portion of the outer side of such 'flap.'

4. The method of making piping which consists in folding the edge portion of a ribbon-like strip of leather against the back face of the strip and securing the flap so folded back by adhesive, bufing the flap sofolded back at and near its edge but not out to the fold of the ribbon, and applying a continuous film of adhesive upon the back side of the strip and on the buffed area of the n 5. The method of making strip which consists in taking a ribbon-like strip of suitable material, folding over longitudinal flaps from both edges of the strip upon the .rear face of the strip and uniting such flaps thereto by'adhesive, applying a film of cement on the rear and partially over the flaps but not as far out as the edge folds of the strip, and cutting the strip between its edge folds into two strips.

6. The method of making an ornamental strip which consists in taking a ribbon-like strip of suitable material, folding ove'r longitudinal flaps from both edges of the strip upon the rear face of the strip and uniting such flaps thereto by adhesive, applying a the strip bean ornamental film of cement on the rear face of the strip and partially over the flaps but not as far out as the edge folds of the strip, and making a zigzag cut inthe strip between the edge folds thereof, thereby dividing the same into two strips, each notched or pinked inward from the edge opposite to the fold. 7. The method of making piping which consists in taking a ribbon-like strip of thin leather having the grain surface of the leather on one side, applying cement to the flesh side of the strip lengthwise adjacent to an edge thereof, doubling over the edge portion of the ribbon upon the cement so applied forming a flap which is thereby held fast to the surface of the strip, buffing ofl the grain surface of the flap from its edge to a line spaced inward from the fold so made, and applying a film of adhesive to the flesh side of the strip and the buffed area of the flap.

8. The method of making piping in a continuous operation which consists in taking a thin strip of leather having a grain surface on one side, folding over both edges of the strip upon the flesh side of the strip and uniting the flaps so formed to the flesh surface by adhesive, bufiing the grain side of said flaps and thereby making their edges thinner and removing the surface finish thereof, to lines Y cuts thereby I to the terminating at given distances within the edge folds of the strip, laying a film of adhesive of substantially *uniform thickness upon the buffed surfaces of the flaps and the intermediate surface of the strip, semi-drying the film so applied, and cutting the strip between the edge folds by a series of connected zigzag dividing the strip into two pipings, each having a pinked edge opposite to the folded edge.

9. The method of making piping in a continuous operation which consists in taking a thin strip of leather having a grain surface on one side, folding over both edges of the strip upon the flesh side of the strip and uniting the flaps so formed to the flesh surface by adhesive, buffing the grain side of said flaps and thereby making their edges thinner and removing the surface finish thereof, to lines terminating at given distances within the edge 4 hesive of substantially uni upon the buffed surfaces of the flaps and the intermediate surface of the strip, semi-drying the fihn so applied, cutting the strip between the edge folds by a series of connected zigzag cuts thereby dividing the strip into two pipings, each having a pinked edge opposite folded edge, and applying a temporary cover stripv of bias cut textile material to each of the pipings so formed. I

' 10. An ornamental strip consisting of a strip having a. doubled over edge flap and a film of adhesive covering the inner portion of such flap and. the surface of the strip adjacent folds of'the strip, laying a film of;adform thickiless- 'ticle underlapping to the flap but terminating at a distance inward from the edge fold of the strip.

v11. A piping consisting'of a strip of grain leather having an edge flap folded back on the flesh side of the strip and provided with a mat surface from a line at a distance inward from the fold to the edge of such flap, and a layer of adhesive overlying the mat surface of the flap and the adjacent flesh surface of the strip. I

12. The method of applying piping to the parts of a manufactured article which consists in laying and adhesively uniting a piping to the surface of one of such parts adjacent to the edge thereof so that the edge of the piping projects beyond such edge,

mg said part against another part of article with the piping uniting said parts together by a scam the the and the piping.

13. The method of applying piping article of manufacture which cementing without sewing a one of the component pieces between them, and.

consists in piping strip tq of such art1cle,;

lay-

and stitching a second piece to the first named i piece and the piping with a single seam.

14. An article of manufacture comprising, two overlapping pieces of material and an interposed piping stitched together on a single seam, with a flexible adhesive between the contiguous surfaces of one of said pieces and the piping.

15. An article of manufacturecomprising a piping, a second part, a flexible film of adhesive between contiguous parts, uniting them together, and a third part sewed to the piping and the before named second part and arranged at the opposite side of the piping from the said second part.

16. A shoe upper comprising a leather piece, a piping adhesively un'ted to such leather piece and protruding from one edge thereof, and a second leather piece underlapping the first named piece and the piping, said pieces being united by a sewed seam, the stitches of which pass through the piping.

17. An article of manufacture comprising a piece constituting a structural part of the article, a piping adhesively united to such piece and'protruding at its edge from one edge of said piece, a second piece of the arthe first named piece and the piping, and stitches uniting the said pieces and the piping to one another; all such stitches passing through both said pieces and the pipinga 18.. Method of ornamenting sheet articles comprising the application of adhesive to one face of an elongate strip, turning over an edge of the strip as a flap and uniting it to the body of the strip by the adhesive so applied, applying a film of cement on the face of the strip beside said flap while leaving the surface of said'flap adjoming the fold unioe surfaces of said z stitches of which pass through both pieces the body of the strip by the adhesive so ap-.

. fold which is ing and one of the pieces of coated, severing a piece of the resulting adhesively coated ribbon from the elongate strip, applying the film of cement on said severed piece in adhesive engagement with the margin of a sheet, and stitching. the portion of the flap adjoining the fold to the edge of the sheet.

19. Method of ornamenting sheet articles comprising the application of adhesive to one ace of an elongate strip, turning over an edge of the strip as a flap and uniting it to plied, applying a film of cement on the face of the strip beside said flap and over its inner edge while leaving the surface of said flap adjoining the fold uncoated, severing a piece of the resulting adhesively coated ribbon from the elongate strip applying the film of cement on said severed piece in adhesive engagement with the margin of a sheet, and stitching the portion of the flap adjoining the uncoatedto the edge of the sheet.

20. An article of manufacture comprising two pieces of material and an interposed piping stitched together, with the edge of the piping protruding beyond the edge of one of said pieces" and a flexible adhesive cement between the contiguous surfaces of such pipmaterial.

21. An article of manufacture comprising overlapping pieces of leather and an interposed piping between them, anadhesive bonding medium between one of such pieces and the piping, and stitches uniting the said parts together, all of such stitches passing through all of the above named parts.

22. A shoe upper comprising a leather piece, a piping adhesively united to such leather piece, and a second piece underlapping the first piece and at the opposite side of the piping therefrom, said pieces being united by a single sewed seam, the stitches of which pass through the piping.

23. The method of applying piping to the parts of a manufactured article which consists in laying and adhesively uniting a pipping to one of such arts, laying such 'part bf the article with the and uniting the parts the stitches of which pieces and the piping.

against another part piping between them, together by a seam, pass through both 24. The method ribbon for application to a sheet article, of the typewhaving an adhesive coating on one marginal surface End having its opposite marginal surface free from said coating more readily to receive stitching, which comprises applying to the central part of a strip of suitable material a stripe of cement capable of later adhesive application to a sheet article and having substantially less width than the strip, while leaving marginal zones of sufli cient wldth to receive stltching free from said cement coating at each slde o of making an ornamental the stripe,'and

signature.

HAROLD A. EVANS.

DISCLAIMER 1,831, 764.Harold A. Evans, Lynn, Mass. ORNAMENTAL PIPING, METHOD OF MAK- me AND APPLYING, AN ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE CONTAINING THE SAME, Patent dated November 10, 1931. Disclaimer filed October 1, 1932, by the patentee, said Evans, the assignee, Parco Specialty Company, and the United Stay Company, Inc., exclusive licensee. Hereby enter this disclaimer. Disclaim the respective subjects matter of claims 10, 18, and 19, except when the film is capable for a substantially indefinite period of adhesive attachment to a sheet to be ornamented, whereby the strip is adapted to be merchandised for subsequent adhesive application. v

Disclaim entirely claims 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, and 23. [Oflic'ial Gazette October 25, 1932.] 

